Recently I have noticed, that my ADHD symptoms get worse and that I get more "quirky". I wondered and thought that especially my bad memory may be because I have Fibromyalgia or because of the last remains of my almost-overcome anxiety disorder or because I had Neuropathia vestibularis 3 years ago or because I maybe had a TGS (Transient global amnesia) last year or because I lived in England in the 1980s and am now developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Or perhaps because of all of it all together.
Today I found out it could simply be the changing hormones. I am 47 and have started noticing changes, so why not!
Overall the articles that I have read state, that there is yet no scientific research on this topic, but some of the information is interesting:
...In an ADDitude survey of nearly 5,000 women with ADHD ... more than 93% said they noticed a difference in the severity of some ADHD symptoms during perimenopause and/or menopause. More than half of survey respondents said the following symptoms had a “life-altering impact” from ages 40 to 59:
- Feelings of overwhelm (73.67%)
- Brain fog and memory issues (74.32%)
- Procrastination (65.60%)
- Time-management difficulties (64.27%)
- Inattention/distractibility (61.74%)
- Disorganization (60.98%)
- Emotional dysregulation (58.82%)
...From brain fog to emotionality and poor memory to disorganization, the symptoms of ADHD grow markedly worse and largely unmanageable in perimenopause and menopause. Nearly half of ADDitude readers call this the most challenging time of life for them....Women almost unanimously report that their ADHD symptoms were most debilitating and life-altering during perimenopause and menopause, when executive dysfunction and emotional dysregulation grew beyond their capacity to manage them effectively.
So here are some of the articles on that issue, that I have read on ADDitude - you might also find them informative:
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